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Office: Music Building 105 | Phone: 732-932-8860 
Karina BrukPiano-Related Studies, Coordinator of Piano Lab Dr. Bruk has performed solo recitals and chamber music throughout the local area. She has also performed at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Steinway Hall, New Jersey Performing Arts Center. Her Doctoral Treatise "Twentieth-Century Well-Tempered Clavier: Preludes and Fugues, opus 87, of Dmitry Shostakovich" was presented at the 2006 International Conference on Arts and Humanimanities in Honolulu, Hawaii. Dr. Bruk has been a recipient of numerous awards; among them the Genia Robinor Award for Teaching Excellence presented by the Piano Teachers Society of America. She also holds a Chair of Piano Department position at the Newark School of the Arts, Newark, NJ, and maintains a private piano studio in South Orange, NJ. B.M., M.M.- Manhattan School of Music, D.M.A.- Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University.
Stanley CowellJazz piano a brilliant, classically trained pianist and composer, is one of the greatest living exponents of jazz. He performs professionally -- as a solo pianist and in ensemble formations from duo to orchestra -- in a variety of venues, from jazz club to concert hall, often utilizing electronic sounds and African finger piano. He has an impressive list of recordings as both a composer and pianist, performing with such artists as Sonny Rollins, Clifford Jordan, Oliver Nelson, Donald Byrd, Roy Haynes, Richard Davis, Art Pepper, Jimmy Heath and many more. His formal training in music is extensive: a Bachelor's degree in music from Oberlin and a Master of Music from University of Michigan. He's also studied at the Mozarteum Akademie in Salzburg and has done graduate work at Wichita State and University of Southern California.
Office: Music 206 | Phone: 732-932-8713 
Daniel EpsteinPiano Pianist Daniel Epstein made his orchestral debut with Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1973. A graduate of the Juilliard School, where he studied with Adele Marcus, he was presented in his Carnegie Hall debut recital by the Concert Artists Guild. Winner of many awards and prizes including the Kosciusczko Chopin Award, the National Arts Club Prize, and the Prix Alex de Vries in Paris, Epstein has appeared as guest soloist with major symphony orchestras, and has given recitals in major cities throughout the world, complemented by master classes and intensive seminars for pianists. As the pianist and founding member of the famed Raphael Trio since 1975, Daniel Epstein has performed virtually entire piano trio repertoire. He has collaborated with many renowned string quartets, including the Ying, American, Chiara, New Zealand, and Talich as well as with the members of the Juilliard, Guarneri and many other distinguished chamber musicians and soloists. Daniel Epstein is a member of the piano faculties of Manhattan School of Music (New York) and Rutgers University (New Jersey) and is the co-founder/director of the Raphael Trio Chamber Music Workshop in Wilton, New Hampshire.
Email: epstein.daniel@verizon.net 
Barbara González-PalmerPiano, Collaborative arts specialist enjoys an international performing career. Holding degrees from Oberlin Conservatory and The Juilliard School, she has performed in concert with Barry Tuckwell, Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Richard Zeller, Peter Damm, Joseph Genualdi, and varied artists associated with the Metropolitan Opera, Chicago Symphony, American Brass Quintet, New York Philharmonic, New York City Opera, Stuttgart Opera, and other organizations of note. Ms. González-Palmer holds the office of Regional Governor in the National Opera Association and is Director of the Collaborative Piano Program at Rutgers University.
Office: Music Building 204 | Phone: 732-932-9183 
Paul HoffmannPiano studied with Cecile Genhart, Brooks Smith, and Leon Fleisher at the Eastman School of Music and The Peabody Conservatory. He is a specialist in 20th-century music and has recorded for Capstone, Orion, CRI, Northeastern, Composers Guild of New Jersey, Contemporary Record Society, O.O. Discs, Spectrum, and Vienna Modern Masters labels, and numerous foreign radio stations. At Rutgers he teaches piano and chamber music and directs HELIX!, the contemporary music ensemble at Rutgers, which he founded in 1990. Hoffmann also performs with Tom Goldstein, percussionist, as the Hoffmann/Goldstein Duo.
Office: Music 213 | Phone: 732-932-8839 
Min KwonPiano Min Kwon received a B.M. from the Curtis Institute of Music, M.M. and D.M.A. from The Juilliard School, and completed post-doctoral studies at Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. Kwon is a Steinway Artist who is in demand around the world as a soloist, chamber musician, teacher, and adjudicator. Her activities have taken her to over 45 countries on five continents and to all 50 states in the US, including such venues as Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, The Orchestra Hall in Chicago, Academy of Music in Philadelphia, and festivals of Aspen, Ravinia, Cape & Islands, Caramoor, Colmar (France), Salzburg (Austria), Kuhmo (Finland), Interlaken (Switzerland), Freiburg (Germany), and Prague (Czech Republic). Recent performance highlights include critically acclaimed, sold-out recitals at Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall, London's Steinway Hall, Singapore's National University, and in Italy, Norway, Estonia, Philippines, Korea, and Malaysia. She has given over 200 recitals, workshops, and master classes throughout the United States under the auspices of CAMI Community Concerts and has recorded for BMG/RCA Red Seal. More recently, she was a guest teacher at London's Royal College of Music, Singapore's Yong Siew Toh Conservatory, Vladmir Feltsman's Piano Summer at New Paltz, New York, Ameropa Festival in Prague, Positano International Festival in Italy, and has been invited to adjudicate competitions of The Juilliard School, World Piano Pedagogy Conference, and New Jersey Symphony, among others. The Grand Prize winner of Korea’s Emerging Artists Award in 1995, Kwon was also a winner of Juilliard’s coveted Gina Bachauer International Piano Awards, and garnered more than a dozen top prizes from competitions in the US, Italy, Scotland, and Spain.
Office: Music 216 | Phone: 732-932-6531 
Gwendolyn TothHarpsichord Recognized as one of America's leading performers on early keyboard instruments, Gwendolyn Toth performs with equal ease on the harpsichord, organ, fortepiano, and clavichord. Her interpretations have been acclaimed for their spirit and intelligence, and her technique is founded on historical performance principles of fingering, articulation, and phrasing. Ms. Toth has won prizes in the Magnum Opus Harpsichord competition and in American Guild of Organist competitions. She has been heard in concert throughout North America, Europe and the Far East, and on radio networks in Holland, Germany, France, and America's National Public Radio. She has performed in early music festivals in Boston, USA; Utrecht, Holland; Regensburg, Germany; and the Czech Republic.
Office: Music Building | Phone: 732-932-9302 
Mark TrautmanChurch Music Skills Mark Trautman teaches church music skills and organ improvisation in the organ program at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. He studied piano at St. Mary's College of Maryland, and earned a bachelor's degree cum laude in organ performance from Towson University in Baltimore and a master's degree in church music with distinction from Westminster Choir College in Princeton. His teachers have included Michael Phelps, Eugene Roan, and Thomas Spacht. He also completed studies as a certificate student at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater International Summer Music Academie in Leipzig, Germany, under the direction of Jean-Claude Zehnder. He has performed throughout the Northeast as an accompanist, conductor, and organist in concert and on radio and television. Since 1994, Mr. Trautman has served as Director of Music at Christ Church, New Brunswick, NJ where he conducts the choir and coordinates the award-winning Lunchtime Recital Series. He is also artistic director and conductor of the New Brunswick Chamber Orchestra. Other professional commitments include Adjunct Assistant Professor of Church Music at New Brunswick Theological Seminary.
Office: | Phone: 732-545-6262
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